KLM kondigt een grote reorganisatie aan, vijfduizend banen verdwijnen. Dat valt op. Lange tijd was KLM juist de winstgevendste helft van het concern Air France-KLM. Een grote kostenpost zijn de salarissen van de piloten en het cabinepersoneel.
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Bezuinigen op diplomatie, door bijvoorbeeld vier Nederlandse ambassades te sluiten, is „onverstandig” in deze tijden van onrustige geopolitiek, concludeert de AIV in een nieuw rapport. Kies liever voor het harmonicamodel, stelt de adviesraad: een minimale bezetting die later weer is uit te breiden.
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Al maanden zoekt het kabinet-Jetten naar een meerderheid voor het belastingplan van komend jaar. Tevergeefs.
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Maastricht Aachen Airport is relatief klein, heeft veel concurrerende luchthavens in de buurt en leek wegens miljoenenverliezen rijp voor een sluiting. Schiphol neemt nu een meerderheidsbelang in de Limburgse luchthaven. Waarom?
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A growing list of brands to avoid because they are “actively engaged in the enshittification playbook” (many post-acquisition by private equity), including Dr. Martens, Pyrex, Hoka, rag & bone, Ray-Ban, Black+Decker, Hunter Boot, Craftsmen, and more.
Dat was natuurlijk wel te verwachten aangezien ze vrij weinig zin hadden om weer aan wal te stappen van het land van Rob Jetten: de dobberboot die bij Zeeland uit het water werd geplukt ging vanaf Nederlands grondgebied het water op. Dat meldt het Openbaar Ministerie. Vermoedelijk was het ding op weg naar Engeland, maar dat bleek zonder motor iets teveel gevraagd. Er zaten 38 personen op de boot: 36 man uit Afghanistan en 2 knakkers uit Soedan. De Soedanezen zijn aangehouden voor mensensmokkel. Zes van de opvarenden waren minderjarig, zij zijn naar Ter Apel gebracht.
Facing a slump in the polls, Javier Milei is making economic attacks on the Falkland Islands' oil industry and suggesting its key fisheries industry could be next. In a UN speech, the Argentinian president claimed that the UK's offshore oil development, the Sea Lion Project, was illegal, and threatened to take action against it
Continue reading...In Michigan, support for Israel was a kind of political hologram. But the media often made it seem real
Among the things that Abdul El-Sayed’s victory last night in the Michigan Senate race revealed is this: the debate over US policy toward Israel does not primarily pit the left versus the right. It pits the top versus the bottom.
There was no grassroots enthusiasm in the state for maintaining US military aid and weapons sales to Israel. That view no longer commands support even among ordinary Republicans. There was instead a massive infusion of pro-Israel money, mostly from extremely wealthy people.
Peter Beinart is a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times, editor at large at Jewish Currents, a professor at the Newmark School of Journalism at the City University of New York, and the author of The Beinart Notebook, a weekly newsletter. His most recent book is Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza
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Continue reading...Leaked documents offer insight into Russian-Iranian military cooperation as US weighs up next steps in Iran war
Russia arranged to supply Iran with 90 launchers for advanced guided missiles, according to leaked defence industry documents that shed light on the depth of military cooperation between Moscow and Tehran.
The documents, obtained by Dallas Analytics, a Ukrainian private intelligence firm and shared with the Guardian, detail plans to supply Iran with launchers for the LMUR, a guided missile fired from attack helicopters which Russian forces have used extensively against Ukrainian targets since the full-scale invasion in 2022.
Continue reading...Glamorous star of 1960s films best known for her role opposite Peter Sellers in A Shot in the Dark
Like Ingrid Bergman and Sophia Loren, the German actor Elke Sommer was part of the postwar crossover wave of European stars who pepped up the tail end of the Hollywood studio era. Sommer, who has died aged 85, matched them for glamour but not dramatic prestige. Her sex-kitten image gave her a decade in the limelight playing exotic continental paramours for leading men and glamorous assassins in the 1960s.
With her beehive hairdo and an upturned nose she was initially self-conscious about, Sommer brought freshness and gameness to her most celebrated role: as Maria Gambrelli, the maid whom Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau goes out of his way to exonerate of murder in the 1964 comedy A Shot in the Dark. In the words of the trailer: “Number one sexpot, I mean suspect.”
Continue reading...In off-Broadway show Ms Blakk for President, Oscar-winning Moonlight writer Tarell Alvin McCraney explores a slice of under-appreciated queer history
At the height of the Aids crisis, Chicago activist Terence Alan Smith put on his drag persona, Joan Jett Blakk, and announced she was running for president. Her slogan: “Lick Bush in ‘92!” Her platform: fire everyone in the White House and paint it pink, reroute the military budget towards education and healthcare, then give the land back to Indigenous people “and let them take it from there”.
The campaign did not advance. But Blakk did make it on to the floor of the Democratic national convention by infiltrating Madison Square Garden (as Smith) and changing in the bathroom. The country saw its first Black drag queen presidential candidate.
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The big memory manufacturers continue to print money at the expense of long-suffering buyers, with industry DRAM revenue approaching five times its level a year ago. Demand for datacenter capacity and AI accelerators drove the 369 percent year-over-year surge in Q3 2026, Counterpoint Research reports. "Bit shipments rose only about 4 percent this quarter, yet DRAM revenue reached nearly $200 billion, close to 5x a year ago," says Counterpoint senior analyst Jeongku Choi. "AI has turned memory from a commodity into a valuable scarce resource, and buyers are now competing for supply rather than negotiating on price. With prices still rising, suppliers are on track to set new earnings records again next quarter." As Reg readers will be well aware by now, the AI infrastructure boom has sent demand for server memory soaring. Manufacturers have prioritized more lucrative products for that market, squeezing supplies for PCs, smartphones, and other devices. The consequences have been a sharp increase in memory costs, leading to higher prices of products that use it. The average price tag for a laptop or desktop was up by double-digit percentages across Europe this summer, resulting in falling PC shipments as vendors struggled to secure supplies and buyers were put off by the expense. A similar effect has been seen in the smartphone arena, with shipments down by at least a fifth as rising memory costs squeezed budget models out of the market, leaving vendors to focus on high-end devices instead. Price increases slowed from the steep rises seen in the first half of the year, Counterpoint says, but average DRAM selling prices still reached $1.90 per gigabit and remained the main driver of revenue growth. Of the big three memory makers – the DRAMvirate, if you like – Samsung led with a 38 percent share of DRAM revenue. Separately, it forecast company-wide operating profit of about $80 billion for Q3, up from $9 billion a year earlier. SK hynix posted stronger sequential growth, helping it recover some of the share it lost earlier this year, according to Counterpoint. The firm made a $62.8 billion profit, and predicts that memory shortages will persist until at least 2030. Micron's DRAM revenue grew more slowly than rivals', but its wider business hardly suffered: fiscal fourth-quarter net profit reached $37.7 billion, exceeding its entire second-quarter revenue of $23.8 billion. Counterpoint's research director MS Hwang expects to see memory prices remaining high next year. "[High-bandwidth memory] prices, which lagged commodity DRAM this year, are now catching up. Long-term agreements (LTAs) are supporting prices, and supply will stay tight because major new fabs will not start production until 2028. LTA terms may cause results to differ between suppliers in the short term, but over time they should all follow the same upward trend," he says. That means more bad news for buyers, but more massive profits for the memory makers. ®
